Mark up will not work in preview

I opened a pages document in preview to edit with markup, it will not allow me to click any button to edit including Markup & signature, also I cannot click anything in the tools menu.

Usually this isn't an issue, though I have run into this problem for some files in the past and never found a solution.

The editing was unlocked for all on the pages document, don't know if that's relevant.

Hoping someone has a solution or at least reason why this is happening sometimes.

MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jul 28, 2023 7:05 PM

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VikingOSX

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Posted on Jul 29, 2023 12:43 PM

Regardless of macOS version, there is no markup capability on a Pages document opened in Apple's Preview as that feature is restricted to PDF or images. Pages v13.1 on macOS 12.3 or later allows you to export a Pages document page as an image and once you have done that, the image would be receptive to markup in Preview.

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